Research Support

Research software encompasses any software created during the research process or for a research purpose (Gruenpeter et al., 2021). The Research Software Management (RSM) Team aims to offer a range of instruments to improve your research software at each stage of the Research Roadmap, making it more FAIR, open source, accurate, robust, swift, maintainable, and secure. In turn, this can help medical science meet funder commitments and regulatory requirements.

Our Services

Researchers can request a consult on RSM-related matters at each stage of the research roadmap to get tailored support by contacting the RDM helpdesk (service “RDM Research Software Management”). For our standard services, see the list below. Feel free to reach out with any other (medical) research software-related questions or idea.  

Our initiatives include: 

• CODECHECK. Let us check whether your analysis script is reproducible and receive a certificate. Learn more at the Service Portal|Research|RSM.
• Coding meetups. RUM-UMC for R 
• Version control support. Git and GitHub or GitLab. 
• Packaging and registry support. Research Software Directory, bio.tools, CRAN, pip, GalaxyHub, etc. 
• Archiving support. Zenodo, Software Heritage, DataVerseNL 
• Training. FAIR Software basics, Git and GitHub Desktop, with reproducibility and security training materials under development.
• Research software metadata. Developing Software Management Plans (SMPs) and standardizing on metadata (Castro et al., 2023).
• Align with (trans-)national initiatives, such as DReaMS, NLRN, Health-RI, TDCC-LSH, NL-RSE, ELIXIR, SciCodes, ReSA, and RDA